Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [verb] [adj] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I say nice people , people that well you know what 's come from all the different countries , from out there . |
| 2 | ‘ Comment : When you make other people laugh , you defend yourself against them taking you too seriously . |
| 3 | BT are damn stupid and charge too much for using their networks , so when you use other people 's passwords you are probably going to be ripping off a company like ICI or even BT . ’ |
| 4 | You loathed it when you saw other people behaving like this and yet you could no more control it in yourself than you could any other automatic physical reflex . |
| 5 | When you want other people to do things for you , then style should be polite and you may need to persuade them to co-operate . |
| 6 | I think that does give such programmes genuine mass appeal when you have ordinary people talking about their gardens — not huge grand gardens , quite often the kind of suburban gardens that a large number of the audience are familiar with . |
| 7 | Self-confidence had not been part of her education so , despite her brief period of employment at de Levantiére 's , she felt insecure and nervous when she met new people . |
| 8 | ‘ When we saw other people 's work , like the French Impressionists , it was a different world . |
| 9 | Not surprisingly , when we asked deaf people to examine videotapes of teachers using simultaneous communication , their rating of effectiveness closely matched their rating of the teachers ' use of facial expression . |
| 10 | ‘ When we asked young people why they were joining paramilitary groups they said ‘ just look at what the Provos are getting with all their violence . ’ |
| 11 | With him , well for some reason he does n't like us , well , you say I was thinking , I 've been thinking as you know this is the sort of thing that I , gets on to my mind , but I was thinking to myself well really and truly we are so honest people ourselves , we do n't go round you know and screw sort of fiddling things , I suppose it comes to hard to us when we discover other people have |
| 12 | There was a disco where beer was on sale but thoughts of dancing the night away evaporated when we found other people were using it for sleeping . |
| 13 | It was only a one-sided lock , which is completely and totally different to an ordinary lock er working both sides , you see what I mean and er I er I 'd got to er make a key , number thirty-nine just like that , see but I had it and I could find out what thirty-nine was and I could make them one and send it and knowing it would fit see and er when they had different people working there , you know staff , things like that , not a lot of orders but er somebody else come . |
| 14 | Three out of four directors say social workers lack the necessary powers to act when they suspect old people are being abused by carers , relatives or neighbours . |